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葡萄牙与西班牙交界处，米尼奥河附近林木葱郁的蒙桑村，有一栋很有个性的住宅。业主是一对父子，他们每人委托葡萄牙建筑师João Paulo Loureiro设计一栋住宅，最后建筑师将这两栋住宅安置在一个建筑单体内。

两套住宅位于一条84x16m的混凝土板下，整个建筑造型现代而有力，却和谐的存在于自然景观中。

A densely wooded land by the bank of the river Minho, a natural frontier between Portugal and Spain, near the village of Monção.The order to design two houses, on the same ground, for father and sonThe son, a well known builder in the area, for whom I was already drawing a small four apartment building in the urban area of Porto, was prepared for the proposal I was presenting for his new house.So, I’ve decided to join the two houses in only one body. It seemed logical.

Briefly: one concrete flagstone (84x16m), prestressed, a modern gesture to lodge two houses (in glass, painted iron in forge and pinewood), supported in modern but traditional granite walls.

A strong gesture looking for the balance with the landscape.

混凝土长板的中心是一个圆形开洞，这是一处留白。未来，这里可以安置树木，雕塑，或者仅仅是极具魅力的空白空间。

At the core, a circle, an ellipsis, a place where a tree can be born, a sculpture, or just the space that was left and conquers the place.

这条混凝土板中间的大圆孔也使得混凝土将预应力发挥到极限，争取了最大长度的横向跨度。具有一定厚度造型的侧面，可看成一条景墙，与景观石墙等相互和谐，并成为景观中的一部分。建筑部分体量比如车库和室内泳池埋入坡下，露出的是恰到好处的体量，直到越过山坡看见另外暴露的部分。一楼的所有玻璃映射并成为景观的一部分。

At the core, a circle, an ellipsis, a place where a tree can be born, a sculpture, or just the space that was left and conquers the place.

The permanent search for conciliation between the modern technologies of building with the more traditional construction in this area, which allows the dialectics between the horizontality of the great voids by the ingenuous use of the prestressed, taking the concrete to its limits, along with the roughness of the great blocks of stone which, juxtaposed, draw big walls in the landscape.

The shape and the tectonic sense of the building have joined together to establish a connection with the place, transforming it into a part of the landscape, preparing the future reaction of the materials as an active dimension of the project.

The building has a base, buried on the ground, a garage, an interior swimming-pool, projecting itself on a slim concrete volume, over the hillside, destroying the adopted camouflage. On the first floor, a metallic volume, all in glass but able to melt within the landscape.

建筑师控制了项目的每一步，比如室内的铁栏杆和乌木及松木打造的家具。采用地热采暖，为了保证能量供应，整体化的插管深深插入地下。

Everything is drawn by the architect, from the iron frameworks to the furniture made of ebony and pine, making us remember the churches’ altarpieces made of stone, in this case, made of concrete.

Energetically speaking, we have adopted geothermics as a way to ensure the energetic balance of the building as a whole, ensured by the integration of buried intubations in the great surfaces of the surrounding ground.

Text By João Paulo Loureiro

João Paulo Loureiro (City of Porto, Portugal, 1970) Architect at the School of Architecture of the University of Porto (1988/1994). During the years 1993 to 2001 works with Alcino Soutinho.Winner of the competition for the Ramalde, Porto market, co-authored with Nuno Brandão Costa. Establishes his own office in 2006 (headquartered in Matosinhos) called JPLoureiro, Architect, Inc.2nd Prize in Iberian Menhir. Honorable mention award PAUMA 2007.His work is present at the national exhibition Habitar Portugal 2006/08. Member of the board of directors of the Professional Architects’ Association in Portugal, North between 2005 and 2010.

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